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5 August 2013

Holiday activities

As a school mum, and working full time, school holidays fill me with mixed emotions. Guilt, dread and panic. I'm not like other parents who blog about loving the end to routine, sleep ins, quality time with kids and planned daily adventures. Instead, I freak out about how we're going to care for the school kid, give the little guy a break too, using our annual leave frugally and wisely yet still having that good old quality time with the kids. Between Itay and I, we have 8 weeks annual leave. M has 12 weeks of school holidays. Those numbers there send me in to a little quiet panic.

Anyhow, I wrote a list of holiday activities before the summer holidays last year on a scrap of paper. When cleaning up, I realised that yes, we had ticked off a few activities, but there are still loads to work on. Some are small, some require more planning and thought. They are also written with summer in mind, but I wanted to record it for myself regardless.